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Romney’s son: He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve ever met

“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to … run,” said Tagg, according to the report.

“If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . he would have been ecstatic to step aside,” he continued.” “He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention.”

According to the report, Romney was shaken by his 2008 failed bid to capture the GOP nomination and was wary of a second run. The former Massachusetts governor initially told family members he would not run again.

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I think numerous Palinbots voted for Romney. It’s far too broad a brush to call them stupid, derelict or treasonous. I supported Palin, but I wouldn’t consider myself a Palinbot—I was certainly aware of her flaws.

Unseen–Palinbot extraordinaire–says the Mittbots were played. Really, Mitt’s supporters were played? The comedy writes itself. Your girl quit elective office, then strung you along…and along…and along, and in the end didn’t even run.

The Romney haters, who in almost every case are also Palin worshippers and charter members of the TrueCon purity brigade, are idiots. Nasty, constantly whining idiots, and all the usual suspects are here today to further dump on Romney.

Maybe he ran simply because he thought he could help the country. But, no, the TrueCons have to turn him into the personification of ambition and evil. The guy who helped a dying kid write his will.

To say she quit elective office and not go into the reasons gives an entirely false picture. It’s a partial truth that paints a lie.

We never knew why she didn’t run except that she said God first, then family, then country. Those are right priorities. At least one of her daughters had some guy stalking her. I’m sure the Palins received all kinds of horrible threats. Whatever her reasoning, I didn’t feel strung along. She’s showed character in the past, so I through it was reasonable to trust her decision.

Unseen–Palinbot extraordinaire–says the Mittbots were played. Really, Mitt’s supporters were played? The comedy writes itself. Your girl quit elective office, then strung you along…and along…and along, and in the end didn’t even run.

So what? What does that have to do with the fact that Romney got his ass kicked when our little echo chamber here was convincing us otherwise?

ddrintn on December 23, 2012 at 2:37 PM

They all think they’re political geniuses. They’re legends in their own minds. They have to dump on Palin to distract from the fact that Mittenz was hiding in the tall weeds like a coward while the battle over Obamacare was being fought, and that by nominating him, the most unpopular thing Odumbo and the dems have done, the issue which won us huge gains in 2010, was effectively off the table. But he was such an awesome manager that none of that matters, you see. Even though he couldn’t master the most basic elements of a political campaign, like GOTV, buying ads, or hiring competent people (despite having been running for POTUS for at least six years), he’s some sort of managerial prodigy. It was so important to nominate this guy that his flacks started trashing Palin before the ’08 election was even over, and his other flacks like Jen Rubin and Stan Coulter viscously attacked anybody who didn’t get in line behind him during the primary.

i am a palin supporter who never liked romney… and i still voted for him! of course we still get the blame, we palin supporters knew this would happen: we would vote for the supposedly “electable” guy, and if he lost, we would get the blame. no, don’t pin this on us, romney lovers. Yyour guy lost, and you were wrong about him being “electable,” just admit it.

what is wrong with us? We unlike the mittbots and other liberal moderate GOp idiots want to win elections. What is wrong with us is we know what wins elections landslide elections and it isn’t Mitt and his perfect hair and liberal talking points. You Mittbots LOST now we find out Mitt played you didn’t want to run, had no fire in the belly and only ran IMO to make sure Obama won and not some filthy conservative like reagan.

Anyone with half a brain cell could have predicted the result of 2012. mitt never had a hope nor a prayer of winning but you idiots allowed a couple polls made by liberals to mold your thinking that Mitt had a chance in hell of winning. Mitt couldn’t even beat a 90 year old senile man in 2008 and you thought he could beat Obama. Delusional doesn’t even begin to describe you.

Walter Sobchak, if you’d pay attention, you’d know that I was against Mitt up to the very last second in the primaries. I agree with all of what you wrote, except the “legend” and “dump on Palin” part.

I don’t dump on Palin. However, if one doesn’t run what do you wish for the rest of the land to do?

The primaries were a disaster and all who brung Obama and their families can go straight to Hades.

Your girl quit elective office, then strung you along…and along…and along, and in the end didn’t even run.

Meredith on December 23, 2012 at 2:43 PM

Their “girl” wasn’t a rich, well-connected Northeasterner who had millions of dollars to spend defending herself against frivolous lawsuits and hitting back at the filers of said lawsuits, you Mittbot loser.

Yyour guy lost, and you were wrong about him being “electable,” just admit it.

Sachiko on December 23, 2012 at 2:53 PM

yeap we tried to warn them for 4 years. they thought they were smarted then us “hicks” but it turns out the hicks knew better than the “smart people” Mitt was a terrible candidate the worse candidate the GOp could pick. He brought nothing to the table, nothing. He cost us Senate seats and down ticket races not only in the senate and house but in the states too.

Now we find out he didn’t even want to be POTUS. How much more data points do the smartliberal mittbots need to understand they were used like a $2 crack whores.

sometimes battles are won before the fighting starts. Mitt made sure the deck was stacked in his favor from the beginning. the only one that had a shot at beating him in the primaries was Palin. For wahtever reason she decided not to run. After her decision I supportted anybody but Mitt in the primaries. Newt and rick would have been better than Mitt by a country mile. Perry had to many ties to crony capitalism for me to get behind him. Cain was Joke. and Timmy was a waste of space. Newt at least had a mind of his own and Rick while not perfect had some understanding of conservatism and would have fallen on the conservative side more often than not when policy positions were needed.

Thanks! That makes sense—I became angry with someone who was planning on not voting for Romney, and said something to the effect that no matter what his disagreements, the bottom line was that Romney loved the country and didn’t despise it.

I apologize for getting back to you after a time gap. We just finished a very late lunch–more like a dinner!